{"id":360,"date":"2007-03-09T09:23:16","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T14:23:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-01-09T11:24:32","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T11:24:32","slug":"battle-royale-command-performances-by-th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/battle-royale-command-performances-by-th\/","title":{"rendered":"BATTLE ROYALE: Command Performances by Third-String Songwriters!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kqgbVhI8bqQ?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nFew bands have a third singer-songwriter who gets to contribute a song to a band&#8217;s record. Fewer yet make strong contributions. At this risk of setting the stage for a quick 2-person battle between <strong>Ron Wood<\/strong>&#8216;s fantastic contribution to The Faces, &#8220;Ooh La La&#8221; (see cool, live Ronnie Lane version above) and any of a handful of <strong>George Harrison<\/strong>&#8216;s contributions to The Beatles, I am calling on your vast knowledge of obscure rock ephemera to identify <strong><em>The<\/em> Greatest Performance by a Band&#8217;s Third-String Songwriter<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>For starters, there&#8217;s only one rule I can think of: XTC contributions by <strong>Colin Moulding<\/strong>, who somehow occupied the Harrison role in 2-songwriter band, will not be accepted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few bands have a third singer-songwriter who gets to contribute a song to a band&#8217;s record. Fewer yet make strong contributions. At this risk of setting the stage for a quick 2-person battle between Ron Wood&#8216;s fantastic contribution to The Faces, &#8220;Ooh La La&#8221; (see cool, live Ronnie Lane version above) and any of a <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/battle-royale-command-performances-by-th\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}